No Double Duty

July 20, 1986

PARENTS OF students at Beaumont Middle School, if you want your child to be a majorette as well as a band member, forget it.

I have two daughters who were champion baton twirlers. They started twirling at age 5. When they entered middle school, their band director said majorettes would be part of the band. This gave my daughters a chance for a music education.

Now Principal Wayne Kennedy says they cannot do both. I found that out because my granddaughter, who has twirled baton for 5 years and wants to play in the Beaumont band, has been told she can't do both by the band director and Kennedy.

This seems unreasonable. For years there was no problem. The majorettes twirled in parades and at games, but at concerts, they played in the band.